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🗓️ 24 March 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
How is the UK really performing on its net zero goals? Can the UK make electricity cheaper and fairer for all? In this episode of the Fully Charged Show podcast, Imogen sits down with Dr. James Richardson, Chief Economist at the Climate Change Committee, to break down the UK's progress, challenges, and the future of decarbonisation.
They discuss the seventh carbon budget, the phasing out of fossil fuels, and the role of electrification in transport, heating, and industry. Dr. Richardson shares insights into policy gaps, energy efficiency, and the true cost of electricity, explaining what must happen to make net zero a reality.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode of the fully charged show podcast where today we're talking to Dr James Richardson, the chief economist at |
| 0:21.1 | the climate change committee. |
| 0:22.7 | Now, for those who may not be familiar, the climate change committee is a statutory body set |
| 0:26.6 | up in the UK in 2008 in order to set out the carbon budgets and advise the government on how |
| 0:32.1 | to reach those net zero targets. |
| 0:34.5 | They've recently launched the seventh carbon budget and there are some absolutely |
| 0:38.4 | fascinating insights in there and we're going to be getting into all of that with our conversation |
| 0:42.3 | with Dr James Richardson. But before we get to that, first a very quick advert break. |
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| 0:58.4 | Thank you so much for joining us on the podcast. Can you kick us off by telling us |
| 1:02.4 | what exactly who you are and what you do? Yeah, so I'm Jane Richardson. I'm the chief |
| 1:08.0 | economist at the Climate Change Committee. And the Climate Change Committee are the |
| 1:12.2 | official advisors to the government on climate mitigation, so getting to net zero, and on climate |
| 1:19.0 | adaptation, so preventing some of the damage that climate change would otherwise do to the UK. |
| 1:26.2 | So we exist to advise the government on what it needs to do, |
| 1:29.7 | to advise Parliament on the level of targets for how we get there, and then also to do a report |
| 1:36.5 | once a year to Parliament on how well the government is doing against the things that the government |
| 1:41.7 | has agreed to do. So we kind of mark the government's |
| 1:44.5 | homework, if you like. And in terms of that homework, how is it? How are we currently performing |
| 1:50.4 | against those targets? So I think there is a lot of good news here. And it's important to say that |
| 1:56.1 | because we don't often hear a lot of good news on the climate. The UK has halved its emissions since 1990, |
| 2:03.4 | which is the kind of base year we use for these. |
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